We're at a great transition point in terms of population, demographics, and what it means to be a human being. — Grace Lee Boggs Copy Share Image
I think people look at revolution too much in terms of power. I think revolution has to be seen more anthropologically, in… — Grace Lee Boggs Copy Share Image
I think our concept of revolution, in terms of getting the power to do things, is too focused on the state. We… — Grace Lee Boggs Copy Share Image
When you think of power, you think the state has power. When you look at it in terms of revolution, in terms… — Grace Lee Boggs Copy Share Image
When you think of power, you think the state has power. When you look at it in terms of revolution, in terms… — Grace Lee Boggs Copy Share Image
We have to think in a very different sense than the way we think now. We think in terms of quick fixes,… — Grace Lee Boggs Copy Share Image
New York has become almost a third-world country. When I was growing up it was mostly a Euro-American country. And it wasn't… — Grace Lee Boggs Copy Share Image
It takes time for change to take place. But then when huge changes are taking place, they are extraordinary. And it requires… — Grace Lee Boggs Copy Share Image
It behooves our citizens to be on their guard, to be firm in their principles, and full of confidence in themselves. We… — Grace Lee Boggs Copy Share Image
I think people look at revolution too much in terms of power. I think revolution has to be seen more anthropologically, in… — Grace Lee Boggs Copy Share Image
I think that most people don't think in terms of an American revolution, they think in terms of a Russian revolution, or… — Grace Lee Boggs Copy Share Image
The image of blacks usually is one of people who are suffering from hunger, unemployment, and poverty. The idea of them as agents and… — Grace Lee Boggs Copy Share Image
I think that rebellions arise out of anger, and they're very short-lived. — Grace Lee Boggs Copy Share Image
I think that education today is a form of child abuse. The natural tendency of children is to solve problems, but we try to… — Grace Lee Boggs Copy Share Image
I believe that we are at the point now, in the United States, where a movement is beginning to emerge. — Grace Lee Boggs Copy Share Image
I think at the time, my radicalization was not through growing up Chinese, but through the role that the black people were playing at… — Grace Lee Boggs Copy Share Image
We urgently need a paradigm shift in our concept of the purposes and practices of education. We need to leave behind the concept of… — Grace Lee Boggs Copy Share Image
This capitalist society has not lasted forever; it's only a few hundred years old. — Grace Lee Boggs Copy Share Image
Building community is to the collective as spiritual practice is to the individual. — Grace Lee Boggs Copy Share Image
We need to do what I call visionary organizing. Recognize that in every crisis, people do not respond like a school of fish. Some… — Grace Lee Boggs Copy Share Image
I think we have to understand that the nation-state became powerful in the wake of the French Revolution, whereas the nation-state has become powerless… — Grace Lee Boggs Copy Share Image
People are aware that they cannot continue in the same old way but are immobilized because they cannot imagine an alternative. We need a… — Grace Lee Boggs Copy Share Image
A revolution that is based on the people exercising their creativity in the midst of devastation is one of the great historical contributions of… — Grace Lee Boggs Copy Share Image
